Franck Royer of Waku | Decentralized messaging
In this episode, we speak with Franck Royer – lead developer of Waku at Logos. Waku is a family of robust, censorship-resistant communication protocols designed to enable privacy-focused messaging for web3 apps. Waku has a strong emphasis on privacy and censorship resistance and are building protocols that are modular and scalable. In this episode, Franck breaks down what decentralised messaging is, why it is so important, and what are its requirements. We dive into the details of gossip networks, message passing, and tradeoffs involved in secure p2p messaging.
Timestamps
00:00|Intros
02:40|What is Decentralised Messaging
07:30|07:30: Waku a foundational project of Logos
09:00|Decentralised messaging foundational to dapps
13:07|Gossip Networks and message passing
16:54|Graphic of Gossip Network
22:44|Tradeoffs in bandwidth consumption and computation
24:22|Redundancy of messages
27:05|Difference between libp2p gossip sub and Waku
31:20|Layers of protocols built on relay for Status App
35:15|If light clients or mobile phones cant handle the main network
37:00|Key Component of Waku: Content Topics
40:25|Size limitations of Messages
45:30|Comparing content topics to separate Discord Servers
52:25|Optionality Developers have to serve their community
56:24|Securing Waku and Spam Prevention
01:02:30|How to Contribute to Waku